The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Friday Favorite

When we did Maxwell’s baptism a few weeks ago, I had a photographer meet us afterward to take some pictures of all the generations together.  The photographer, Lauren Ustad, did such a great job that I decided to make her today’s Friday Favorite!  If you need a good photographer in Birmingham, I definitely recommend her!

You can check out her work here:  Piper Photography

Here are some of my favorite shots of hers from the day….

I could kiss his sweet cheeks all day long!

I specifically asked her to take this shot so we could get a good photo of the knee socks!

With Susu, Dodo and GJ…

Granddaddy, Daddo and John….

The three Max’s all together!

With Granddad and Lulu…

The whole Brown clan – love Maxwell’s face in this one…

and the whole Patterson clan!

With Daddo and GJ.  Someone really should have told Robert to unbutton his jacket here…  🙂

It was a great day and I’m so glad Lauren was there to capture it!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!  See you Monday…or maybe Sunday.  😉

Camo

This past weekend Maxwell and I were playing out in the yard waiting for Robert to finish up with the mowing. Here’s Maxwell playing in the grass…

What’s that? You can’t see Maxwell? That’s because he has on camo shorts! He just blends right in…

Good thing I put him in the white t-shirt or I might have lost him in the yard forever!

Maxwell loved sitting in the grass, pulling it out by the handful and, of course, trying to eat it…

He quickly realized it didn’t taste too good…

He sure doesn’t need to add grass to his diet anyway. He’s clearly already getting enough to eat…

Once Robert was done mowing he got to come and play…

and by “play” I mean get poked in the eyes.

It was a fun afternoon with Maxwell just kickin it in his camo!

Man in the mirror

Last week we sat Maxwell in front of the mirror in our bedroom and he was having so much fun checking out the baby looking back at him!  He kept squealing and talking to the baby…

and then leaning in real close to check him out….

It was too funny…

He really wanted that baby to come out and play!

Maybe soon he’ll figure out that cute baby in the mirror is him!

More Easter

We woke in Montgomery on Easter and had a great time getting to visit all morning.  We then got dressed up in our Easter finest!  Maxwell loved his little sailor outfit and kept saying “Ahoy!” all day.  🙂

After that picture, I put my big camera up and didn’t get it out the remainder of the day. I just needed a little camera break.  I clearly can’t cut myself off 100%  though because I continued to snap away with my point & shoot and phone camera!

All dressed up and ready to go!

Posing with LuLu and Granddad…

Ready for lunch at the club…

Look who sat in a high chair the entire time and didn’t fuss one bit!

He really was SO good all weekend long.  Such a little happy guy!

At lunch we gave him his first cracker to suck on…

He wasn’t exactly a fan!  Maybe he’s a sweet and not a salty?  His favorite thing about the cracker was being able to crush it in his hands!

Katie and Anna were also all dolled up in their Easter frocks…

After lunch we headed back to Robert’s parents house to hang out.  Here’s some pics from my phone to round out the afternoon.

I love these chubby legs…

Here you can really see how blonde and wavy his hair is getting…

We headed back to Birmingham late Sunday afternoon and Maxwell was just worn out from all the fun…

I hope you had a wonderful first Easter sweet boy!  You were so good all weekend and charmed everyone with your cute dimples.  We can’t wait to see you hunt some eggs next year!!

Easter!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.  We headed down to Montgomery on Saturday and had a great weekend with Robert’s side of the family.  The fun started on Saturday afternoon with an annual egg hunt hosted by the Inscoes.  The sun was shining and it was a beautiful – and HOT – day!  It felt even hotter carrying around an 18lb space heater on my hip!  But, he looked so cute in his smocked sheep outfit and white sandals that I didn’t mind one bit.

This was actually Maxwell’s second time at the egg hunt.  He was there last year in my belly…

And he was there this year in my arms!

Maxwell wasn’t lacking for attention at the hunt.  He was squeezed, pinched, and head-rubbed all day!

I can’t blame anyone though because he did look awfully cute…

While Maxwell had fun, he wasn’t quite so sure about the heat…

And he wasn’t quite so sure about Uncle Ronnie either!

Don’t worry, they were best buds a minute later!

It was a fun day for Robert to get to see some old friends…

chat with his brother…

and hang out with me!  🙂

I think LuLu had a fun day getting lots of Maxwell time in…

and taking plenty of pictures with her fancy camera!

Katie and Anna were there to gather as many candy eggs as possible!  I’m sure Maxwell will be helping them hunt next year!

I had a wonderful time…

and even got to take my picture with the Easter Bunny!  hooray!

After melting in the sun for a while, we decided to go inside for a little air conditioning.  Maxwell was very excited about that…

And, finally, we had a little cousin time on the couch.

After that, it was on to Montgomery for the night.  Pictures from Easter Sunday tomorrow!